Website Design Tutorials and Articles

Tutorials on designing and creating your website, dealing with browser and platform compatibility issues, creating a layout for your web pages, planning your website structure, etc.

Usability

• Seven Easy Ways to Annoy Visitors to Your Website - A Satirical Look at Some Usability Mistakes Made by New Webmasters
• What is the Best Font Size for a Web Page?
• Can I Create My Entire Website in PDF?
• Should I Have a Multi-Column Newspaper Layout for My Website? More Tips on Usability
• How to Write Dates that Can Be Correctly Understood by an International Audience
• Is Your Website Design Driving Away Your Customers? Some Basic Usability Tips for Commercial Websites
• Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Design
• The Paralysis of Choice and How to Improve Sales and Customer Satisfaction
• Is Your Site Ready for the Average User?
• Add a What's New Section to Your Site

Compatibility

• HTML and CSS Validation: Should You Validate Your Web Page?
• How to Check Your Website with Multiple Browsers on a Single Machine (Cross-Browser Compatibility Checking)
• How to Test Your Website Under Different Screen Resolutions under Windows the Easy Way
• Which Font Should I Use for My Web Page? Tips on Choosing Fonts for Your Website
• Designing for Browser and Platform Compatibility
• Preparing Your Website for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)
• The Decline and Fall of Internet Explorer 6: Implications for Webmasters
• 6 Things Every Webmaster Should Know About Google Chrome

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• How to Make a Mobile-Friendly Website: Responsive Design in CSS
• How to Make a Two Column Website Layout Mobile-Friendly
• How to Make Your Images Mobile-Friendly (Responsive Design)
• How to Use Different CSS Style Sheets For Different Browsers (and How to Hide CSS Code from Older Browsers)
• How to Design a Two Column Layout for Your Website Using CSS
• Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
• More Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Tutorials and Tips...

Acessibility

• Why Access Keys Are Mostly Useless for Accessibility Purposes
• How to Improve the Accessibility of Your Website
• More Accessibility Tutorials...

Beginning Web Design

• How to Make / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide
• Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard - generates a 2 or 3-column website design
• Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web
• Dreamweaver Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS6
• Dreamweaver CS5.5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS 5.5
• Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS5
• Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS4
• Dreamweaver CS3 Tutorial: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS3
• BlueGriffon Tutorial: How to Design a Website with BlueGriffon 2 and 3
• BlueGriffon Tutorial: How to Create a Website with the BlueGriffon 1 Free Web Editor
• How to Design and Publish Your Website with KompoZer
• How to Design and Publish Your Website with Nvu
• NetObjects Fusion 11 Tutorial: How to Create a Website with NetObjects Fusion 11
• Serif WebPlus X2 Tutorial: How to Design Your Website with Serif WebPlus X2
• HTML Tutorial - Learn to Design a Website using HTML

Other Web Design Articles

• How to Create a Logo for Your Site the Quick and Easy Way
• What's The Difference Between Liquid, Elastic, Relative, Fluid, Flexible and Fixed Layouts?
• Where Should I Put Common Elements of My Web Pages? SSI vs Frames vs JavaScript vs Templates
• What's the Difference Between a Content Management System (CMS), a Blog, a Web Editor and an Online Site Builder?
• Is It Better to Use an Online Site Builder or a Standalone Web Editor?
• General Principles for Designing a New Theme or Template for Your Blog
• 6 Things to Note Before Changing Your Site Design
• Should I Start My Site Under a New Domain Name or as a Subdirectory (Or Subdomain) Of My Existing Site?
• Should I Display an Email Address on My Site or Use a Contact Form?
• How to Create Good Filenames for Your Web Pages
• Should Your URLs Point to the Directory or the Index Page?
• What Should the Width of a Web Page Be?
• What is the Best Font Size for a Web Page?
• Disabling the Image Toolbar in IE 6 for Your Website
• The Great Fixed Vs Relative Width Debate
• Two Common Web Design Myths
• How to Set Up A Custom 404 File Not Found Page
• Woes of a Big Site: How to Prepare Your Site for Growth
• Drop Down Navigation Menu JavaScript
• How to Present Content First in a Multi-Column Table Layout
• How to Create a Thumbnail that When Clicked Opens a Larger Version of the Picture in Dreamweaver
• How to Add Background Music to Your Web Page

Other Web Design Articles Using Specific Web Editors

• How to Add a CSS Navigation Button Menu to Your Website with Dreamweaver
• How to Create and Customize a Table with Dreamweaver
• How to Add a CSS Navigation Button Menu to Your Site with Nvu
• How to Add Navigation Menu Buttons to Your Website with Nvu (Video Tutorial)
• How to Add a CSS Navigation Button Menu to Your Site with KompoZer
• How to Remove Table Borders in Nvu and KompoZer
• How to Change Table Border Colours in Nvu or KompoZer
• How to Add a Background Image to Your Web Page in KompoZer and Nvu
• How Do I Edit an Existing Site with Dreamweaver, Nvu or KompoZer
• How to Make Your Website to Fill an Entire Browser Window with Dreamweaver
• How to Prevent Your Images or Text from Going Out of Alignment When Your Visitors Resize Their Web Browsers in Nvu/KompoZer
• How to Link Directly to a Line or Section on a Web Page with Dreamweaver
• Is it Possible to Use Microsoft Word or Office to Create a Website? If So, How?
• Other Dreamweaver Tutorials...
• Other Nvu Tutorials...
• Other KompoZer Tutorials...

Other Useful Pages

• The Beginner's A-Z Guide to Starting/Creating Your Own Website
• How to Start / Setup Your Own WordPress Blog
• Important Precautions to Take When Buying a Domain Name
• What Sort of Website Should I Create In Order to Earn Money?
• How to Add a Feedback Form to Your Website (Video Tutorial)
• Free HTML Editors, Free WYSIWYG Web Editors

New Articles

• How to Convert Your Website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 the Quick and Easy Way
• How to Set the Height of a DIV Relative to a Browser Window (CSS)
• How to Generate the Free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate on Your Own (Windows) Computer
• How to Insert Meta Tags into a Web Page with BlueGriffon
• How to Play a Song (or Some Other Audio Clip) from a List on a Website
• How to Draw a Horizontal Line on a Web Page with Expression Web
• How to Create a Website Free of Charge
• Why Can't I Make Up Any Domain I Want? Is There a Way to Do Away with a Registrar Altogether?
• What's the Difference Between a Domain Name Registrar and a Web Host?
• How to Make a Mobile-Friendly Website: Responsive Design in CSS

Other Articles on This Site

• How to Register Your Own Domain Name
• Which Web Host Do You Recommend? (FAQ)
• Blogging Tutorials
• What Sort of Website Should I Create In Order to Earn Money?
• Comprehensive list of articles in all categories

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